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DESCRIPTION:Build the Marchathon to Stop the War on the African Community in the U.S.!  
 Saturday, October 23, 2004  Sponsored by the African People's Solidarity 
 Committee     June 7th Planning Meeting and Rally  The now public photos of 
 Iraqi prisoners being brutalized by U.S. military men and women graphically 
 illustrates to the world the violence and brutality that the United States 
 imposes on the world’s peoples, violence and brutality that it has 
 practiced for centuries here in the United States against African and 
 indigenous peoples.          The fact that many of the military police 
 carrying out the assaults on the Iraqi   prisoners at Abu Ghraib got their 
 training and practice of abuse in U.S. prisons is no surprise to the 
 African community, which knows the torture of the colonial U.S. prison 
 system and about the torture and sensory deprivation of the SHU programs of 
 places like Pelican Bay in California,  and the so-called Gladiator fights, 
 the sadistic games played on African and Mexican prisoners by guards at 
 Corcoran prison.         As white people, we have to take responsibility 
 for our history and not pretend that we didn't capture and enslave an 
 entire independent people for our economic and social benefit. It was 
 Africans, brought to these shores in chains as slaves to work for free for 
 the Europeans that were first "broken" in places like Haiti before they 
 were brought to U.S. plantations. African people had magnificent 
 civilization when the European onslaught began.        We slaughtered 
 millions of independent, indigenous peoples in order to occupy this land. 
 Today, the indigenous people are imprisoned in concentration camps called 
 reservations, dying of curable diseases at an average age of 44 years while 
 white society drives our SUVs and mobile homes through their homelands in 
 order to get to the nearest mall.         We have to face the reality that 
 the entire white world today is built off the suffering and oppression of 
 African people and all the people of the world that the U.S. government 
 rapes and tramples on in order to get their resources. We have to stand up 
 against the vicious war against Iraq and demand total liberation for the 
 Iraqi people. The resistance of the entire population in Iraq is truly 
 heroic and inspiring.         But we also have to take a stand against the 
 undeclared counterinsurgency war, the other war that the U.S. government is 
 waging here against the African and Raza population.     If we are serious 
 about wanting to participate in a future where there is peace and harmony 
 among peoples, we have to work hard in support of justice and national 
 liberation for Arab, African and all oppressed people. The people of the 
 world are sending us a serious message, and African people inside the U.S 
 are telling us too: unite with humanity in ending this system of slaves and 
 slave-masters, or go down with the slave-master, who will surely be 
 defeated.      We call on all other white progressive people to join the 
 African People's Solidarity Committee in working in support of the Uhuru 
 Movement, and building the March to Stop America's Other War, calling for 
 liberation and reparations for African people! U.S. out of Iraq! Victory to 
 the Iraqi people! End the U.S. occupation of the African community! Open 
 the jails & let the Iraqis and Africans and Mexicans out! Uhuru! 
 uhurureparations@yahoo.com  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/05/24/39713.php
SUMMARY:U.S. Military Learns Torture Techniques from U.S. Prisons!
LOCATION:Temescal Library Community Room,  5205 Telegraph Ave, Oakland  (near 
 MacArthur Bart)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/05/24/39713.php
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